Horowitz Foundation Grants are to support emerging scholars through small grants; to promote scholarship with a social policy application; to encourage projects that address contemporary issues in the social sciences.
Grant Amount
- Grants are based exclusively on merit.
- Each grant is worth a total of $7,500; $5,000 is awarded initially and $2,500 upon completion of the project.
Criteria for completion include:
- approval of the study
- acceptance of an article based on the research by a peer-reviewed journal
- invitation to write a book chapter based on the research
Note: Grants are non-renewable and receivers have 5 years from announcement of the award to complete their project and claim their final payment.
Eligibility:
- Current Doctoral candidates who are working on their project.
- Candidates who do not already have a PhD; those who do, are not eligible to apply.
- Candidates must have defended their project proposal or had their topic approved by their department.
- Candidates from any country and any university in the world may apply. U.S. citizenship or residency is not required.
Criteria:
- projects with a social policy application on either a global or local level
- feasibility, applicability, originality, methodology, theoretically informed or empirically rich research and letters of recommendation
- No specific weight is given to any one area.
- Proposals are evaluated based on overall merit of all aspects of the application.
How to apply
- Fill up application formĀ
- Two letters of recommendation (3rd is optional)
- CV
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Organization | Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy |
Fellowship Level | Doctoral |
Country | USA |
Subject areas | Social Sciences |
Fellowship amount | $7,500 |
Eligibility | Open to all nationalities |
Deadline | 1st December (yearly) |
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